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Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Farbtoner posted:

I don't know about that, but I do know of Thera: a computer game of the bullet hell genre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_rSSOFRviE

This looks like a game developed in a Clickteam product. And done so badly.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2012 17:20

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# ¿ May 23, 2013 15:22

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

EVERYTHING about this makes me upset/depressed that someone could consider this worthy of... anything.

You can make some cool stuff in Clickteam's game making software. It's just a shame to see someone making such crap and asking for money for it.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2012 19:29

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Zellus posted:

So is he trying to look like Cortana from Halo, or what? Is that the gimmick?

Anyway, here's a kickstarter for Four Tanks and a Healer, a flash cartoon that the creator describes as "think of Family Guy or the Simpsons if it took place inside of World of Warcraft." The guy is asking for $45,000 so he can make a season out of it, and possibly a feature length movie.

That page posted:

"Four Tanks and a Healer" is a funny animated series

I stopped at 'funny'. Describing something as a comedy is fine when that's its intent. When you specifically have to reassure people that your programme is 'funny' in the first line, then it probably isn't.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2012 23:15

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Quarex posted:

Less than 48 hours left to leave brutally ironic donations for these guys:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects.../geeves-and-gee

'Donated' $1.02.

I want my thank you email, damnit

# ¿ May 4, 2012 22:19

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Aww man!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects.../geeves-and-gee

I still offered a donation of over a dollar. I still want my thank you email, damnit

# ¿ May 6, 2012 23:53

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...n-reincarnation

This one actually seems pretty cool. Assuming that they don't run into any legal issues. I loved Carmageddon back in the day.

# ¿ May 9, 2012 12:09

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Borden posted:

Oh god damnit. I would pay money to see Carmageddon re-released. Curse you Kickstarter! I hated you when you were all about funding road trips for overfed hipsters!! I don't know what I'm gonna do if they start a campaign for a new Rocket Jockey.

I've already thrown $15 onto the pile. Now I hope it succeeds, since that'll apparently land me a copy of the game

# ¿ May 9, 2012 14:22

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Bare back chairs are going to fail spectacularly in a few hours.

'Bare back chairs'? So... stools?

Glad to see Republique made it over the top - I put $15 in

# ¿ May 11, 2012 15:43

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Yawgmoth posted:

What the gently caress? "if there's any chance you get attacked by some shitbag, then you should just not try to use our site because deleting all those comments is hard on us." This is the exact opposite of what they should be doing.

Kickstarter are not handling this well, but on the other hand, she's had a stalker for 10 years and hasn't managed to get the authorities involved, or change her online pseudonym to shake him?

# ¿ May 13, 2012 12:04

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

So the Carmageddon kickstarter hit its goal!

I'm really looking forward to this.

# ¿ May 27, 2012 16:02

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Ugly In The Morning posted:

The addition of getting the original Carmaggedon on GOG at 25 bucks probably did a lot for giving it that last push.

It certainly convinced me to raise my donation by $10.

Vice President posted:

Finally, something not awful.

I wonder if this will be the only round of successful games (wasteland, carmageddon, etc) where the original developers buying back the rights to their old games from the publishers. Once publishers figure out the original devs can get a ton of cash on KS, why not just do it themselves?

I don't think this would work; part of the charm of a decent Kickstarter is that it's a little guy who is trying to do something cool, but needs the initial cash injection to get it done. If big publishers start to do this, I get the feeling that the community would start asking exactly why they need the money, and lash back at them. Which would be a shame, that kind of stuff could kill Kickstarter.

# ¿ May 28, 2012 09:51

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

RadicalWall posted:

Oh god, I did this. I drove him off the cliff by telling him his goals were unrealistic.

I've become the monster.

Oh man, he's going to hate the comment I left then.

RadicalWall posted:

EDIT: Also I looked up Chris Frankie, their "veteran game creator who is known for Redneck Rampage." His position? QA Team #2. Literally the lowest rung on the ladder. He didn't even make it to QA Team #1.

I had a feeling it was going to be something like this; especially as the list of games he mentioned that he worked on weren't developed by the same groups, and about using US developers; Stainless (creators of Carmageddon) are based in the UK.

# ¿ May 28, 2012 17:35

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Yond Cassius posted:

On the downside, Battle Chess looks like it's going to fail, but hard. It's just barely past the 15% mark, and there are only ~~four~~three days left.

The demo videos are pretty hilarious.

I hadn't heard of this till you mentioned it.

# ¿ May 29, 2012 08:53

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Pfirti86 posted:

Your comment is actually very well reasoned and not mean spirited at all. If he gets whiny about that he can go gently caress himself.

Well I got a response:

quote:

Thank you for your words. We have the world planned out, with more races and cities and what not in "storage" We were just trying to focus upon balance in the begining and it seemed that the choices for characters were just a little outside of what we wanted. The race and city were already planned, just at a different stage. Just as with the Monster City we're working on as well. In this game you can play as a monster, only if you do the quest and find their "essence" then turn it in for your template, then next time you log in, you have the option of playing as a monster in the game.
My only concern at the moment is out of the people we have shown and have let play the game so far, the only real negative comments we've gotten is the terrain is a little blocky, too many sharp edges. They go on and on about how amazing everthing looks, which I thought was a little over kill in my opinion. Not yet have we had someone bash us so harshly for our graphics. Perhaps that is what is needed. I've always strived to make things look as good as they possibly can, while still maintaining game play. Thank you for your input.

He totally had the new race and city planned, honest, and has others in 'storage'.

Which is weird to me, because he says that adding such races will be more work, meaning that the resources for them likely haven't been developed. To me, 'storage' sounds like 'I scribbled them down in a notepad', which doesn't constitute much in the way of planning.

I'm not sure if he's trying to convince us, or himself.

I'm also not sure who's been telling him how amazing the game looks. His testers must be either family, suffering from cataracts, or time travellers from the year 1998.

Also, whoever told him to post in the Games forum here, I salute you!

Rohaq fucked around with this message at May 29, 2012 around 09:16

# ¿ May 29, 2012 09:05

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# ¿ May 23, 2013 15:22

Rohaq: Aug 11, 2006

Crazy Goat posted:

A kickstarter to fund a book about kickstarting.

So meta.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...t-works-and-why

I actually hope it fails, just for the hilarity of it.

Well, you'll be pleased:
Kickstarter Project For Book On How To Fund Kickstarter Projects Failed To Fund Itself On Kickstarter

# ¿ Sep 30, 2012 21:36

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